Tweet Microsoft has announced that its Azure cloud platform is getting a new “Billing Reader” role, in addition to a new Invoice API. The latter lets you download invoices programmatically. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Google Drive users will be able to save 17% by paying for a full year of storage up front – but if you need 1TB of storage, Microsoft’s OneDrive comes at a lower price, and with far greater value. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Updated: Amazon is still not carving out EC2 compute instances in smaller-than-an-hour increments as we speculated it might, and as Cloud Sigma and ProfitBricks already do. But now it is offering customers a much more granular account of their Amazon Web Services billing. A letter went out today to AWS customers about this new capability. Text below: Dear AWS customer, We are excited to announce Detailed Billing Reports, a…

Tweet As part of yesterday’s festivities, Microsoft completely revamped Windows.com (well windows.microsoft.com, really), recreating the site with a clean bold new look. For those of us wondering where Microsoft will take what’s left of Windows Live, and especially Windows Live Essentials (now Windows Essentials), the new redesign seems to be tipping its hand and there’s some pretty bold handwriting on the wall. Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker are…